Text to Logo Converter V1.0.1
(C) 1998 by Waldemar Rosenbach

This programm takes a plain text file and creates a WINDOWS-95 startup or
shutdown logo. You may use your own background picture, font and text color.
Miscellaneous alignments of text are provided.

             usage: txt2logo [options]
             
             options:
             
             /t <text.txt>      read text from text.txt file
             /b <clouds.bmp>    use clouds.bmp for background
             /f <font.dat>      take font information from font.dat file
             /color <r> <g> <b> set text color 0 <= r,g,b <= 255
             /vt                set vertical alignment top
             /vm                set vertical alignment middle (default)
             /vb                set vertical alignment bottom
             /hl                set horizontal alignment left
             /hm                set horizontal alignment middle (default)
             /hr                set horizontal alignment right
             /dx <pixel>        relative shift to the right
             /dy <pixel>        relative shift to the top
             /import            build font information file (advanced)
             /export            extract letter images (advanced)
             /nobackup          do not backup from logo.sys
             /q                 quiet - don't display copyright message
             /l			read the license

For example:
txt2logo /nobackup /t text.txt /b clouds.bmp /f font.dat

takes the text from file 'text.txt' and use the file 'clouds.bmp' as
background image. The Text is drawn with font taken from 'font.dat' file
with default color. Program creates a logo.sys file, that you should copy
to your root directory of boot drive (perhaps c:\)
If you want to exchange the shutdown screens, copy this logo.sys file to
logow.sys or logos.sys file in your windows directory.





Advanced

Options /import and /export are used for building your own fonts. Call the
programm with the switch /export first. You will see a lot of .bmp files with
letter images. They are named with the order number of the correspondent
letter. Modify them or create your own letters. Then call the programm with
the /import switch to build your own font file. For example:
txt2logo /f myfont.dat /import
After that you may delete .bmp files.

Attention! You may distribute font files created by you, but you shoud always
keep the font.dat file unchanged!

